04130nam 22006373 450 991089640850332120241125084505.09780520402850052040285510.1525/9780520402850(CKB)36315337000041(MiAaPQ)EBC31788859(Au-PeEL)EBL31788859(DE-B1597)690237(DE-B1597)9780520402850(Perlego)4383147(EXLCZ)993631533700004120241125d2025 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierPredatory Data Eugenics in Big Tech and Our Fight for an Independent Future1st ed.Berkeley :University of California Press,2025.©2025.1 online resource (263 pages)9780520402843 0520402847 Introduction : predatory data : civic amputations in the global data economy -- Immigrant excisions, "race suicide" and the eugenic information market -- Streamlining's laboratories : monitoring cultures and eugenic design in the future city -- Of merit, metrics and myth : cognitive elites and techno-eugenics in the knowledge economy -- Relational infrastructures : feminist refusals & immigrant data solidarities -- The coalitional lives of data pluralism : inter-generational feminist resistance to data apartheid -- Community data : pluri-temporalities in the aftermath of big data -- Conclusion : data pluralism and a playbook for defending improbable worlds.The first book to draw a direct line between the datafication and prediction techniques of past eugenicists and today's often violent and extractive "big data" regimes.  Predatory Data illuminates the throughline between the nineteenth century's anti-immigration and eugenics movements and our sprawling systems of techno-surveillance and algorithmic discrimination. With this book, Anita Say Chan offers a historical, globally multisited analysis of the relations of dispossession, misrecognition, and segregation expanded by dominant knowledge institutions in the Age of Big Data.   While technological advancement has a tendency to feel inevitable, it always has a history, including efforts to chart a path for alternative futures and the important parallel story of defiant refusal and liberatory activism. Chan explores how more than a century ago, feminist, immigrant, and other minoritized actors refused dominant institutional research norms and worked to develop alternative data practices whose methods and traditions continue to reverberate through global justice-based data initiatives today. Looking to the past to shape our future, this book charts a path for an alternative historical consciousness grounded in the pursuit of global justice. A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.TechnologySocial aspectsDiscrimination in scienceHistoryEugenicsMoral and ethical aspectsHistoryQuantitative researchMoral and ethical aspectsBig dataMoral and ethical aspectsSOCIAL SCIENCE / Technology StudiesbisacshSOCIAL SCIENCE / DiscriminationbisacshTechnologySocial aspects.Discrimination in scienceHistory.EugenicsMoral and ethical aspectsHistory.Quantitative researchMoral and ethical aspects.Big dataMoral and ethical aspects.SOCIAL SCIENCE / Technology StudiesSOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination005.7SOC071000SOC031000bisacshChan Anita Say1768097MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910896408503321Predatory Data4287489UNINA